The property has a 30-foot driveway connecting with 111th, but it would have to be widened if that were the main entrance and exit to the car wash, DeGeratto said. The entrance onto Austin would be configured so that only right turns to go south from the site would be allowed.
#Buddy bear car wash license#
The board’s concerns about traffic were so great that when they voted June 21 to approve a license for Buddy Bear Car Wash, it was with the condition there be no exit or entrance on Austin.īut DeGeratto persisted with Austin access in a plan he showed to village officials Tuesday at the Saunoris property. It’s a well-run operation, he said, but after exiting the car wash, drivers, including himself, often pull off to the side of the road to towel dry their vehicles, which could add to the congestion. Siegel said he has gone to DeGeratto’s car wash at 95th and Vincennes in Chicago.
#Buddy bear car wash drivers#
His plan for the Saunoris property shows about 22 parking spaces at the car wash for drivers to use the vacuums.
During peak times, the numbers are higher, he said. Village Trustee Andrew Siegel said the car wash’s busiest days likely will be the busiest days at the cemetery, the weekends.Īn average of about 60 vehicles an hour go through the car wash, said DeGeratto, who has Buddy Bear car washes in Berwyn, Bellwood, Broadview and nine in Chicago. North of 111th, Austin has houses on both sides of the street. “It’s going to be impossible for any resident to get out on 111th from that street.”Īustin connects with 111th in a T-intersection with a traffic signal, with the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery on the south side of 111th. “I can tell you with my own experience, it will be a nightmare if cars are constantly coming out of that car wash onto Austin Avenue,” Davenport said at an April board meeting. “Austin Avenue is not a thoroughfare that can handle a mass of cars,” Village Trustee Elaine Davenport said.
While the Village Board wants to welcome the new business, several board members said they want vehicles to access the car wash from 111th, not from Austin. Vehicles would enter and leave the car wash from Austin Avenue. Phillip DeGeratto, owner of Buddy Bear Car Wash, said he has a contract to purchase the approximate 2-acre property on the northwest corner of 111th Street and Austin Avenue.ĭeGeratto proposes a car wash with four wash lanes along 111th and four single-family houses to the north of the car wash. The owner of a chain of car washes wants to build a car wash in Chicago Ridge on the site of James Saunoris & Sons Flowers & Greenhouses, which closed at the end of 2021.
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